Tag: COVID-19
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Fear lingers in India even as new COVID-19 cases decline
India saw a significant drop in daily coronavirus infections on Monday, with 366,161 reported. This is coming after logging more than 400,000 cases for four straight days. However, this would have likely been due to relatively lower testing at the weekend, experts said. COVID-19 claimed 3,754 lives in the past 24 hours, according to the…
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TNG Health Tips: How To Bolster Your Immune System
We hear a lot these days about how to boost your immune system. Some of it is utter flim-flam and should be flung from you like a chakra-balancing jade egg. Some of it, not so much. But before we go much further, it’s important to recognize the immune system as the two things it fundamentally…
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Oyedepo tags Covid-19 vaccine ‘deadly’, warns his church members to reject it
The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church International (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, has urged his church members to reject Covid-19 vaccination. He stated this on Sunday during the 40th anniversary thanksgiving service of the church in the Ota Cathedral in Ogun State. He said, “They should come to me to find out how…
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EU contract with AstraZeneca on COVID-19 jabs ends June
The European Union has not extended a contract for COVID-19 vaccines with British-Swedish manufacturer AstraZeneca, Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton said on Sunday. “We have not extended the order beyond the month of June. “We will see. We will see what happens,” Breton told French broadcaster France Inter with regards to AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine…
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India hits 4,000 Covid deaths in a day
India recorded more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for the first time and more states imposed lockdowns Saturday in a desperate bid to halt the devastating new surge. The 4,187 new deaths took India’s overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taking its…
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Pastor Adeboye’s wife, Folu weeps for Nigeria as she leads prayers at Holy Ghost service
Pastor Folu Adeboye, wife of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) on Friday wept as she led prayers for Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the wife of the RCCG General Overseer, who recently lost her son, Dare, wept while leading a prayer session at the May 2021 edition of…
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Adeboye son’s death not COVID-19 related – RCCG
Pastors’ Seed Family (PSF), an umbrella body for Pastors’ children in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) worldwide, has debunked the rumours making the round that Pastor Dare Adeboye’s death was COVID-19 related while requesting that the family be left to mourn in peace. In a statement issued Thursday, the body it was without…
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India sets new COVID-19 records in daily cases, deaths
India set new COVID-19 grim records on Thursday with daily cases reaching 412,618 and death toll just shy of making 4,000. According to figures published by worldometers.info the death toll recorded nationally on Wednesday was 3,982. This new deaths have escalated the cumulative toll to 230,151. The caseload since last year has also jumped to…
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One per cent of Lagos residents vaccinated against COVID-19 — Commissioner
Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, says that about 260,000 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the state. Abayomi told a ministerial media briefing on Tuesday in Lagos that the figure represented just one per cent of the state’s population. He said the second phase of vaccination would start soon and warned…
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COVID-19: NCDC records 18 new infections
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 18 new coronavirus infections, with zero COVID-19 related death in four states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as of May 3. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. The agency said that with the new 18 cases, the tally of confirmed COVID-19…